🤔 1923-1973 Do You Remember...

[Anonymous]

👍Tell us about YOUR "good old days"......

BORN: Age 50 - 1973, Age 60 - 1963, Age 70 - 1953, Age 80 - 1943, Age 90 - 1933, Age 100 - 1923.

[LisaS961881]

    Gosh yes!  My Junior High banned these in just 3 days.  I had these as well as Jarts,  My best friend shattered her kitchen window with her Clackers …..🥴

[SereneSeagull]

Oh geez, a window!  That’s bad!   Yeah, these were incredible as a kid.  Couldn’t believe how cool they were and such a simple design. Two glass balls on a string.  I remember some kids swirling them around like a lasso!

And Jarts!  So many fun dangerous toys, right? Crazy they had these thingsthinking back now!

[LisaS961881]

    We are heading out to our small town’s annual “Good-bye Summer/Greetings Autumn” Festival. ….and the memory of wrapping up and putting away this item on a shelf in the garage - right around this time of year -   Just popped into my mind.  Geez….over half a century ago that was!   ☀️🏖️🍂

[LeeS4949]

 I cranked one of those things many many miles on those summer days at my grandparents house.. Thank you so much for the wonderful post..

[LisaS961881]

Lee and Gail, am smiling that you both remember doing this! 🍨 

My parents, grandparents, and even the next door neighbors had one of these too!

In recent years, I’ve used the “Coffee can within a can” method, which works on the same principle,   The kids (and adults) still have to earn their ice cream by using their muscles! 💪🏼 😅.
Sitting in pairs about six feet apart and facing each other, hungry participants need to roll the coffee can back and forth about 15 minutes to before they get a taste of the best ice cream in the world!

🙋🩵

[LeeS4949]

 Im a bit embarrassed not to have heard of the coffee can method.. Thank you for the wonderful image.. 

[LisaS961881]

  Lee, 

     A friend shared this technique with me back in the 90s when I had wanted to recreate the experience that I remembered so fondly from my childhood  with a Brownie Troop,, but only had one crank and dozens of tiny hands! 

     Years later, I passed it on to a neighbor during the very tail end of the pandemic.   It really added to the joy of the outdoor birthday party that she had for her 8 year-old daughter.  (Schools had just re-opened, but everyone was still nervous about gathering in groups.)

    If anyone reading this wants to know what I’m jabbering on about 😌, I just checked, and it’s a simple search - “making ice cream with two coffee cans”.

    However you make it, by crank or can, your decades old memories don’t deceive you - store bought is a distant second to this!

    🙋🩵

[GailL1]

Mmmmmmmm . . . . my mouth started watering just seeing that pic - 

[LisaS961881]

[SereneSeagull]

Hadn’t seen those in ages!

[LeeS4949]

 Bottled milk deliveries???

[LisaS961881]

      Yes Lee!   I was hoping someone would remember this too.

     We had a container just like this one that was kept right up against the house next to our front door.  The milk would be delivered just after dawn in glass bottles by a milkman who always wore a black cap and a bow tie. ….Lying in bed, I would hear the muffled sound of those bottles chinking and chiming together as the milkman carried them.  Such a gentle alarm clock! 😇

    It was a special treat to be told that I could gently peel off the foil cap at the top of the bottle, and there was always a tiny bit of cream at the top for my reward.

.  ….. I still have two of those bottles!  (After stuffing them with cotton balls, they are a sweet memory sitting high upon a shelf in my kitchen.)

   ~ Lisa 🙋🩵🥛

[GailL1]

Ya’ll must have been rich cause we had to milk our ”delivery”

[LeeS4949]

 Direct from the "factory",nothing tastes better.. I worked on a dairy farm nearby pretty much all of my child hood doing ALL the jobs eventually.. Loved it and miss those simpler days..

[LisaS961881]

   So true!

      Simpler times …. When we could always count on Walter Cronkite to utter, “And that’s the way it is.”  Somehow, that sign-off was just so reassuring.

     ~ Lisa 🙋🩵 📺 

[LeeS4949]

  Somehow I always felt Walter was talking directly to me when he gave the news of the day.. Nobody like that these days..

[LeeS4949]

 Ah yes, I had forgotten about the cream on the top.. I used to lay in bed as well wondering what time it was (alarm clocks and I have NEVER been on friendly terms) and I would hear that little "clink" and know it was school time. What a wonderful reminder of good times.. Thank you so much..

[DaveMcK]

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[GailL1]

That  remembrance has to be older than 60 - 

[papawofboo]

Remember this and the dryer that went with it. You know, a line between 2 trees and the use of many many clothes pins.

[SereneSeagull]

Had a neighbor who hung clothes, sheets, etc in backyard.  No fence.

   She had a complaint from another neighbor that it was unsightly, and in that person’s words, it was “bringing the neighborhood down”.  Our neighbor didn’t bat an eye, next day put up the entire family’s underwear to dry. Never stopped hanging clothes. 🤣. My mother then put up her line as well.

[GailL1]

A story - my mom had a clothes line that would not stay up on one end -she gripped and gripped about it so my dad dug a really huge hole and poured in concrete and stationed the problem pole in it - it never moved again and he told her it was there for good !!! It was one of those double line poles that looked like a cross - you got the picture, right?

In 2000, I sold her property and a bunch of other acreage around it to a developer who was gonna put up those really big homes on a tiny bit of land - you know, where you cut your grass with a pair of scissors and every thing else is paved.  

Anyway, he began to develop the land and I would drive by occasionally to see the progress - roads were cut, utilities laid then homes started going up and way in the back ground - there was that cross pole standing tall.  I do not know the problem with getting it down but for quite a while it stayed up and I chuckled every time I passed it - guess my dad made sure that it was not coming down without a fight. 

[LisaS961881]

  Oh Gail, thank you for sharing this!  

  What a touching image of those halcyon times when our Dads puttered around the house fixing things!  I am quite certain that your Dad somehow knew just how long his sturdy clothesline pole steadfastly stood its ground against the onslaught of those McMansions!

💜

[GailL1]

Thanks - I had this vision of a huge tractor coming in and just knocking every thing down when the developing began - that is until he got to this steel cross pole that was anchored way down in the ground - I bet it stunned the tractor driver when he hit it.  

[SereneSeagull]

That’s a perfect nod to your father, and made my morning!  Great smile for my day, thanks, needed it!

[LeeS4949]

 I would give about anything to be back "near 60 " again lol.. Great pic Dave

[DaveMcK]

I remember passing out the milk when I was in grade school. Also we got thyroid pills.

[DaveMcK]